This data collection includes selected variables from the
first three waves of the RETIREMENT HISTORY LONGITUDINAL SURVEY,
conducted in 1969, 1971, and 1973 (ICPSR 7683, 7684, and 7685) as well
as the Retirement History Longitudinal Survey Summary of Social
Security Earnings, compiled from Social Security records. The Summary
Earnings variables document reported earnings, wages and salary,
self-employment earnings, and agricultural employment for the
original respondent as well as first and seco... (more info)

This data collection includes selected variables from the
first three waves of the RETIREMENT HISTORY LONGITUDINAL SURVEY,
conducted in 1969, 1971, and 1973 (ICPSR 7683, 7684, and 7685) as well
as the Retirement History Longitudinal Survey Summary of Social
Security Earnings, compiled from Social Security records. The Summary
Earnings variables document reported earnings, wages and salary,
self-employment earnings, and agricultural employment for the
original respondent as well as first and second spouses. The earnings
information is pertinent for the years 1951-1974. The variables
selected from the first three waves of the Retirement History
Longitudinal Survey include employment information concerning current
and past employment, number of hours worked, number of hours off
work, how the job was found, gross pay and time unit of pay, pension
plans from current job and past jobs, types of pensions, and types of
benefits. The subset also includes items pertaining to work history of
the respondent, retirement plans, and, if retired, plans to work in
the future. Demographic information collected about respondents,
their spouses, and other members of the household includes race, sex,
age, date of birth, marital status, education, occupation, income,
benefits amount, number of children and children attending school,
and household composition and relationship.

Study Description

Citation

Social Security Administration. Retirement History Longitudinal Survey, 1969-1973, and Summary of Social Security Earnings: Merged Data. ICPSR07739-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1979. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07739.v1

Universe:
All married men in the United States born between
1905-1911. Women born between 1905-1911 without husbands were also
included in the universe.

Data Types:
administrative records data,
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

All records contain weights, which must be used in
any analysis.

Data from the 1969 wave were processed and
reformatted by the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
at Duke University.

Conducted by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, and the Social Security Administration, Office of Research and Statistics.

Methodology

Sample:
The first wave of surveys used the same sampling frame as
that applied by the United States Bureau of the Census for the Current
Population Survey (CPS). Sample members were persons who lived in
households that had participated in CPS before February 1969. In
subsequent waves, attempts were made to locate and reinterview
original respondents. If the original respondent had died in the
intervening period, a full interview was conducted with the surviving
spouse, when applicable. To qualify as a surviving spouse, an
individual must have been married to and living with the original
respondent at the time of the previous interview and not have
remarried.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1984-03-18

Version History:

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.